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20th-century Australian writers

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Patricia Wrightson
Australian children's writer (1921–2010)
Wang Gungwu
Chinese Australian historian, sinologist, and writer
Terry Hayes
British film producer and screenwriter
Catherine Spence
Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and suffragist (1825–1910)
Daisy Bates
Irish Australian journalist known for her work with Aboriginal People (1859–1951)
Ben Carlin
Australian engineer and adventurer (1912-1981)
Barbara York Main
Australian arachnologist (1929-2019)
Anita Heiss
Indigenous Australian author
Mabel Brookes
Australian writer (1890–1975)
Joyce Ackroyd
Australian academic, translator, author and editor.
Marie Byles
Australian lawyer, explorer and conservationist (1900-1979)
Catherine Gaskin
Irish-Australian romance novelist
Nan Chauncy
English-Australian children's writer (1900-1970)
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Australian palaeontologist and ornithologist
Inga Clendinnen
Australian historian
Penny Cook
Australian actress, theatre director and writer
Elizabeth Durack
Australian artist and writer (1915-2000)
Dorothy Wall
New Zealand writer (1894-1942)
Carmel Charles
writer, Last fluent speaker of Nyulnyul (1912–1999)
Aileen Yvonne Palmer
(1915-1988) poet, translator and political activist
Fred Schwarz
Australian physician and anti-communist activist
Margaret Tucker
Indigenous Australian activist and writer (1904–1996)
James Hume Cook
Australian politician (1866-1942)
Claire Colebrook
Australian cultural theorist
Beverley Harper
Australian author (1941–2002)
Hazel Rowley
Australian writer (1951–2011)
Robyn Eckersley
Australian academic